The Fourth Kind

Details

Release year: 2009

Storyline

The unsolved mystery of a town in Alaska with an extraordinary number of disappearances during the past 40 years, with accusations of a federal cover up.

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Did you know

• "The Fourth Kind" is a reference to scientist J. Allen Hyneks famous categories involving the sightings of UFOs. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) also referred to this scale. However, J. Allen Hynek wasn't the scientist who added the "Close Encounter of The Fourth Kind and Fifth Kind" to the scale created by him. It was added by Jacques Vallee after J. Allen Hynek passed away in 1986.

• The "real" Dr. Abigail Tyler was played by the actress Charlotte Milchard. In the end credits she appears credited as Dr. Abigail Tyler and in the final cast list with her real name but as one of the "Nome Resident".

• Psychologist Chris French wrote on The Guardian: "The reason he found this film so 'disturbing' was because experience shows that no matter how obvious a hoax may be to those capable of critical thinking, there will always be many who will accept at face value the film's claim to be based on true events." -None of these events actually occurred, none of the 'archival footage' was real, and Dr. Abigail Taylor has never existed, a piece on Overland reads.-

Box Office

Gross (Domestic): $25,486,040

Opening Weekend (Domestic): $12,231,160 (2009-11-08)